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Originally Posted by Colombine";p="
Put it another way, of the two guys I sourced if left on a desert island with only women for company, the first would probably, eventualy give in to pressure to have sex whereas the second never would and may not even be physicaly capable.
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Surveys based on these kinds of hypothetical situations are very often inaccurate. A lot of people (Probably most) would answer the way that is acceptable by society. For example, ask a homophobic person this question and of course they will tell you that they would never have sex with a man under any circumstances. Yet in reality it is often very different. People want to say they would do the "right" thing, but we often prove to be weaker than our imagination in reality.
If a group of men were left together with no female contact, I think eventually they would all "become" (I use this for lack of a better word) gay. I know I would. In this society it would of course become acceptable for men to have sex with other men because there are no women, and even the most homophobic would eventually give in once their old values begin to recede.
I think this is a social rather than genetic issue. If society were more accepting of homosexuality, more men and women would engage in it. Why not? Look for example at ancient Greek society. It is well known that homosexuality was quite common (some historians even believe that nearly every Greek man had engaged in homosexual sex at some time in their life). It is believed this is because ancients Greeks deemed it extremely unacceptable for women to have sex before marriage. For men, there was no such cultural restraints. But where to go if unmarried women for off-limits? I think your starting to get the idea. In this culture, it was acceptable for young unmarried men to engage in homoseuality, so it occured frequently.